Originally Posted by
79pmooney
Edit: My dad had a Willis Jeep of roughly the same age as the OP's Dunelt. And like it, stick shift on the floor , 3 gears and a low range lever with two you had to reach further for. But unlike the Dunelt, the Willis had real climbing gears! Low range, third gear, foot to the floor - maybe 15 miles per hour.
Those were transfer case levers. One engaged the front axle and the second shifted the transfer case into low/neutral/high. Low range should only be used in 1st & reverse so you didn't break things. Neutral was often used to run PTO driven equipment (pumps, generators, saws, etc.) with the vehicle remaining stationary. Those levers went away in the 70's when transfer cases started using a single lever with linkage to combine the 2. I miss my 67 Scout, small V8, 4 spd, posi F&R. Thing was a stump puller.
Staying on point lights could be battery like this one or generator run.
